The Photography Thread

[Ish]

Marty - thats a great set of shots there.

I've been away at a conference (presenting - first time to a large group of people - great fun) so not many new snaps. But did work on this this evening - came from a snapshot and Photoshopped to hell

[TommyG]

I like that shot Ish, it reminds me of a old 80's music show where the presenter was computer animated head in a box, can't remember what it was called, but yeah cool shot

Love your set Marty, my favourites being the sea-horse and ferry, lovely colours on that one. That pink fish is a bit of a looker as well eh!

[Womble9]

I like that shot Ish, it reminds me of a old 80's music show where the presenter was computer animated head in a box, can't remember what it was called, but yeah cool shot

Wasn't Max Headroom was it ?

[TommyG]

That's the fella Womble!

[Womble9]

That's the fella Womble!

NIce one! As you can probaly imagine from the time of my post I was just in from the boozer, found myself you tubing old max for another half hr or so!!

[MartyG]

Some shots from today, unfortunately I managed to leave my camera on ISO 1600 for 40 odd shots, annoyingly over exposing them :/ I just about saved this one though



I also took a series of shots in a German underground hospital used in WW2 - it was just like the underground level in Resistance Fall of Man on PS3







And I think my favourite from today, another one from the underground hospital - I think this is quite a powerful B&W image - stark in its representation.

[PeteJ]

Marty they are FANTASTIC!

[SmokeMeAKipper]

What camera would you guys recommend for a first DSLR? General consensus seems to be a Canon EOS400/450D or one of the Nikon D-series (is it D60 or D80?)

My current compact - a Canon IXUS - seems to have a problem (I'll try and post some pics from my camera phone to elaborate...)

[winky]

Great shots Marty. I have visted the hospital on Jersey and you captured my memory of the place, not my ideal place for treatment.

Love the seahorse too. Great colour

[SmokeMeAKipper]

Ok, so on my pics there seems to be a reddish-band appearing along the top of every photo ( like the one of my niece here ) which is obviously very annoying, and when you're looking at the LCD screen to take a photo the whole screen is that shade of red ( though when you actually take a picture they come out OK except for the red-line along the top )

I've had the camera 4 years now and had thought about upgrading anyway - but is it a problem that means it's time to throw it away or is it fixable?

[Ish]

More good shots Marty. Particularly like the saturated tunnel shots. The B&W one shot through the cage makes my eye go mad!

Couple from me. I'm not a fan of CCTV camera's and have deliberately set out to make that a "hard" image as a result. I've got a project in mind regarding privacy and surveillance.

The second I thought was neat the way the polariser brought out the structure behind the glass.





Taken the other weekend. Had a busy week and felt knackered today so took advantage of a lazy day to start catching up on my processing backlog. 30Gb of space free'd on my laptop hard drive as a result!

Oh and one more.

[MartyG]

Thanks all - taken well over a thousand shots here so far.

SmokeMeAKipper - I'd suggest it's likely to be a knackered sensor, or possibly image processing, either way I'd doubt it'd be economically viable to repair over getting a modern P&S.

Ish - the CCTV shot is interesting - some very stylised processing on that one.

Some shots from today - grey this morning, but it cleared up around 5pm











And finally - the closest I'm going to get to shooting nudes anytime soon ...

[SmokeMeAKipper]

SmokeMeAKipper - I'd suggest it's likely to be a knackered sensor, or possibly image processing, either way I'd doubt it'd be economically viable to repair over getting a modern P&S.

Thanks MartyG - like I mentioned I was thinking about buying an entry-level DSLR anyway so I guess that's forced my hand. A shame as the Ixus was a great compact (still is except for the red-band along the top of every photo!)

So... Canon EOS450D - good first choice into the DSLR world?

[MartyG]

You won't go wrong with a Canon or a Nikon

[SmokeMeAKipper]

You won't go wrong with a Canon or a Nikon

Brilliant, thank you. I'd prefer to stick with Canon as that's what I've been using for the last 4 years in terms of layout and menus etc. Time to get the Credit Card out then...